BIG SUR

I got a snake in my heel
I got a shameful disposition
I’m a child born to the smog and lung busting labor 
I want a home on the surf 
Where gold trim lines, my cobblestone drive 
Where marble kisses my hand as I ascend five floors

Down from the heavens I want the Big Sur 
Up from the valley I want the Big Sur
Hear it in the meadow I want the Big Sur
Yes sir
Deep into the canyon and I want the Big Sur 
High above the city I want the Big Sur 
Echo in the mountain I want the Big Sur 
Yes sir please sir I want some more sir

Down from the heavens I want the Big Sur 
Up from the valley I want the Big Sur
Hear it in the meadow I want the Big Sur
Yes sir, please sir I want the Big Sur
Deep into the canyon and I want the Big Sur 
High above the city I want the Big Sur 
Echo in the mountain I want the Big Sur 
Yes sir please sir I want some more sir

I got a snake at my heel
I am nouveau riche with my curated assemblage 
Amenities of class and pine scent 
I’ve a dome vaulted parlor, rather recherche

PELIGROSO ES MI NOMBRE MEDIO

Baby!
I was packing up I was ready to go,
Took the hand brake off the Trans Am and dumped it
Threw a molotov cocktail and it blew

Oh now baby!
We’re just ruble under rocks on the moon
Stranded in the same old, same old earth orbit
Without a hum and lacking a tune

So move for your lover baby
I feel lately
A simple fake then we start again
I want to see it lady
The bridge a-blazin’ no turning back no more heading in
I’m done with feeling solemn
I’ve been solemn enough for myself  

And that is a heavy load, heavy load

Run for it honey, run for it honey I’m an Hombre Peligriso
Don't ya know

Baby!
The heat is coming down and I ain’t dying for pride
Ain’t no loan shark gonna come on and get it
They don’t walk for no pretty boys and babe nor do I 
Oh now baby! Got the deluxe package, and it’s coming in five
A new dust filter for a hoover max-extract pressure-pro model six zero, let’s ride

SALFORD LOVE PSALM

I was never one for plastic bodies
But you’re a sexpert yeah that’s for sure
If I knew every ache possessing
I’d be chasing every thought behind each word

You were never much the one to dance for
Till the dance floor was stained in crime
Wish I knew how to keep you suspended
With the mystery behind these eyes

And I really want you
Even my worst I do it for you
Let’s speak in humble ways

You were standing in a perfect doll pose
Your bon mot, no one else could get
I wished you'd lean into my ear and whisper
I want to a see red light on your pallid skin

On the water where there’s drugs and knife fights
Within the fog children wave hello
I'll tell you nothing, and nothing seems worth it
Cause the truth is something we both know

BERLIN IS HAUNTED

I’d lose my dearest friend, every time we’d haunt Berlin 
And I dread what was really said
Through the fog in my tanked up head
We’d drain our blood from two paper cuts
I don't understand my lies, I don't understand my ire
I’d be damned if I’m wrong in the fear it’s true
Well I swore that we’d be perfect and I’d never run on you, then I

Threw it through the window last night
I took it to the window
I don't even understand why
I saw it out the window
Our dream that we built for a long while, I took it to the window 
I don't understand the way I am again

I can’t stop the bleeding
Oh why am I not healing

We’ve emptied our pockets of our knives by now
Everything has seen revision, Berlin has seen now seven springs
And I trust that you have healed sat by that lake down south, 
Burying a friend who lost his sight of friends at hand, when I

I trusted all the way of the old paper cuts 
As if wanting to be perfect if I feel this love again

OPHIDIAN UNDERFOOT

Deus aximio meum est
En tribulationae

SCINTILLA

In the cruelness of this life there I was 
I was standing like a herculean 
That’s the intrepidity I got
Then they were coming at me
Oppression was around me
Depression was abounding
But I was raising fists like a champion
That’s the intrepidity I got 
And I say

I am me, scintilla as I was
I am me, scintilla as I was 

Who saw me down?
Who saw me done? 
Imma give it back back hard as it’s come
I got my truth, I ain’t through till I stop
Dance one more round with the rhythm I got

In the cruelness of this life there I was 
They said that fate was holding on forever
And failure set the rhythm that I got
And so, I held my line, shut my mouth and saw
That I was raising fists up like a champion
That’s the intrepidity I got 
And I say

LET THE SHADOW LIE NEXT TO YOU

Lately I’m, lately I’m
A shadow waiting on the dawn
Imma ask the light for mercy, light for mercy when the morning comes

Lately I'm, lately I’m
Grinding on the war game now
And I’m dealing in a loving arms race, 
Sheltered in place
In passion’s battleground 

Just let the shadow lie next to you
Just let the shadow lie next to you
Just let the shadow lie next to the one I love 
Where our souls become undone 
Just let the shadow lie next to you

Don’t you fear the 
Faint embrace that
Holds you here and 
I have wrapped you in 
Don’t you fear the 
Faint embrace that
Holds you here and 
Wraps you 

Lately Im, lately I’m, 
Defiant in a life unbound 
And you must be a child to it honey 
A whisper to a sunbeam
Making it one to you now

NICOTINE

I planted deep these marble feet, I saved my world from pain
All of my heart is off the shelf, no longer on display
These tired bones and vacancies are sure to do me in 
And I’m complacent in apologies, my words are sounding thin

And the nicotine stains, they’re still on my hands
It must be the holidays, the queen’s on the tele again 

Don’t be afraid now
Don’t be ashamed now
We’re only half awake, we’re only half awake

And l know the stars will all win out, dissolving voids in flame 
Though infinitesimal I feel, I hide myself away